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Scrum – Provides you a good quick feedback on accuracy of estimates for tasks ..




One of the major dependencies for a successful project schedule is in terms of the accuracy of estimates versus the reality. In short, you want to measure the difference between the time estimate for a project (or a task inside the project), and the actual effort needed. For such a measurement, you would want to [...]



Problem – When stakeholders disrupt the prioritized feature list of items for a Scrum team




When you start working out some of the basic assumptions of how a Scrum team is supposed to work, one of the base assumptions is that the Product Owner sets the priorities of all the features / User Stories for a Sprint. Now, depending upon business needs, this order can even be changed midway during [...]



What to do when priority of your requirements changes in the middle of the cycle ?




One of the questions that I saw recently coming up during a recent discussion was about what happens when you need to change your requirements during the middle of a Sprint cycle. This was a team that had set Sprint cycles of 30 days duration, and normally never had an issue with any modifications required [...]



Has Scrum just become a buzzword, and not implemented with seriousness ?




A difficult question to answer in a complete way. There is no doubt that there were a lot of initial adopters who looked at their current processes, were not satisfied with the way things were going, or with the predictability of their processes, and were impressed by what they saw in Scrum. Many of these [...]